I slept all day (big surprise) so I didn't watch out Glorious Leader's speech on the kick-assedness of America and our super-special plan for Ultimate Victory. Do I really need to read it? You know I'm just going to get depressed and curl up in a corner and sob myself into a coma.
All right, let's take a look.
The speech, the first in a series the president will deliver in the run-up to the Dec. 15 elections in Iraq, broke no new ground in the increasingly impatient and vocal debate about U.S. strategy there.
Fuck.
In an oft-repeated message, Bush said that setting an artificial deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal sends a statement that "America is weak and an unreliable ally" and vindicates "terrorist tactics of beheadings, suicide bombings and mass murder," inviting new terrorist attacks on the United States.
Because it's not like they can't get on a plane or something.
Reading from a letter written by a U.S. soldier on his lap-top computer before his death, an emotional Bush said America owes those who have died in Iraq to "take up their mantle, carry on the fight and complete their mission."
And here I thought we owed soldiers the best equipment and training money can buy, a clear plan before the start of the war for victory and the promise not to send them to war unless it is absolutely necessary.
If I can sum up: We can't set timetables because this is going to take an awful long time, "politicians in Washington" can't be counted on to know anything, which is why Congress has the power to declare war and civilians in the White House are in charge of the military, and we are actually winning the war in Iraq, you just can't see it, just like them WMDs.
You can look at the great strategy we have now here. While you do, I'm going to find the Haagen Das and a box of tissues.
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